Groovy Joe courts the youth vote
Joe Biden is courting the youth vote for his 2024 re-election campaign, telling young voters how great he's been for them and all but getting out his groovy shirt, too.
According to the Washington Examiner:
President Joe Biden confusing Taylor Swift and Britney Spears may have been funny, but a continued inability to connect with young people, especially young Democrats, will not be a laughing matter for his reelection campaign next year.
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Biden's campaign is mindful of the president's enthusiasm gap, amplifying a story Wednesday about how young people are "furious" with and "frightened" by Trump promising, again, to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Obamacare permits those under 26 to remain covered by their parents' healthcare insurance plans.
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Biden himself emailed about 813,000 federal student borrowers this week to remind them that their loans were forgiven by his administration. A White House official promoted the move, emphasizing how Biden has canceled $127 billion in debt for almost 3.6 million people.
Eeewwww.
That alone is reason enough not to vote for him.
Biden's student loan forgiveness, which might not happen anyway owing to court challenges, is quite the quid pro quo demand for young borrowers. He didn't wipe out the taxpayer-paid loans because he wanted to -- he just did it to pander to young voters. It probably creeps some of them out that he got into their email to send the appeal -- where'd he get their email addresses from?
If he thinks that will put him over the top, he's sadly mistaken. Young voters hate Joe Biden by the largest of all margins, according to a very recent TIPP poll, and they are like a brick wall in thinking Biden is "too old" to run for president anyway.
But the real issue is the economy,
According to another article on TIPP Insights:
The Biden economy has been so disastrous to 18-24-year-olds that they may switch their allegiance to former President Trump in 2024 if he clinches the GOP nomination. James Carville's famous political axiom, "It's the economy, stupid!" applies just as well today as it did in 1991 when Carville forced the Bill Clinton war room to focus on Bush 41's handling of the economy and helped Clinton win the presidency.
Biden's youth-vote appeal went to quite a small segment of the voting population, and as word of this email note gets around, it's likely to anger other voters, including those in the youth demographic. Think of how many young borrowers never did get the Biden loan forgiveness because they paid off their loans, or didn't get hired as government bureaucrats doing "public service," or never borrowed in the first place.
Young people just entering the workforce are hit hardest by the ravages of jobs evaporating, and a coming recession is "baked in the cake." Wages have already fallen owing to Bidenflation, and they are down for lack of job creation except in the bureaucrat world, too.
The Examiner cites one expert who believes this is what's really going on:
But pollster David Paleologos advised against pigeonholing young people as single-issue voters, whether regarding the Israel-Hamas war, climate, or student loans. They additionally care about the economy and inflation, according to Paleologos, director of Suffolk University's Political Research Center.
"In our last national poll, young people trusted Donald Trump more to handle the economy, 51%-41%, over Joe Biden," Paleologos told the Washington Examiner. "But, among these same young voters in a ballot test, Biden led by 3 points, 35%-32%. The difference? Independent candidate RFK, who pulled young voters away from Trump."
"Both scenarios are bad for Biden currently, either more young voters voting for Trump or more young voters voting third-party, because it's one less vote for Biden and reduces the advantage Biden should have in this key age voting bloc," he said. "That's a far cry from the 24-point thumping Biden gave to Trump among those ages 18-29 years, 60%-36%, in the 2020 election."
I think he's right.
The economy, unlike global warming, or the Hamas cause, is up close, oersonal, and affects young people just as they are starting out in life.
It's not just that jobs are hard to find and wages are bad -- it's that everyone is being told to scale down, do with less, live more poorly than their parents did, not have babies, go green, ride the bus, rent a small, cramped apartment like the Europeans do...
Small is beautiful and sustainability is everything and wanting anything else out of life is wicked and right-wing.
Consumption is out, and virtue-signaling is in. Minimizing one's carbon footprint by doing with less is one's goal in life.
Joe Biden pats himself on the back about keeping young people on their parents' insurance until the age of 26 as if that's something they're really happy about, having to consult maw and paw before going to the doc and answer whatever questions they may have about 'why' instead of just being able to get a job with a good salary and its own health care benefits. Sound like something to brag about?
I remember what the Jimmy Carter years were like as a young person, and even with all the crises that Carter created, the sanctimonious calls to young people to do with less, to expect to never get a job, to content oneself with being poor, was a wake-up call to young people in my day to reject that hideous gasbag and vote for Ronald Reagan.
We were right, as we soon learned when Ronald Reagan won.
Now history is repeating itself. The past is not dead -- to paraphrase William Faulkner -- it's not even the past. Or to take the recent example of James Carville's memorable sayings: "It's the economy, stupid."
No amount of getting hip and 'with it' for young voters is going to fix young voters for Joe Biden with that Biden economy around.
Image: The Office of James Carville, via Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 3.0
Foreign-Born Population Hits 49.5 Million Under Biden – Largest Ever in American History
The nation’s foreign-born population has hit an unprecedented 49.5 million, the largest ever recorded in American history, under President Joe Biden.
Analysis by Steven Camarota and Karen Zeigler at the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) revealed that in October the foreign-born population reached almost 50 million, increasing by 4.5 million foreign-born residents since Biden took office in January 2021.
Put another way, the Biden administration has added more immigrants to the nation’s population than the annual number of U.S. births in fewer than three years. Similarly, the growth of the foreign-born population under Biden exceeds the resident populations of 25 states.
“At 15 percent, the foreign-born share of the U.S. population is also the highest ever recorded in American history,” Camarota and Zeigler wrote:
As the debate rages over the ongoing border crisis, this finding is important because administrative numbers such as border encounters or even legal immigrant arrivals do not measure the actual size of the immigrant population, which is what ultimately determines immigration’s impact on the country. [Emphasis added]
Chart via Center for Immigration Studies
In numbers even excessive for a liberal White House, Biden has doubled the monthly inflow of immigration. Under former President Barack Obama, for example, the foreign-born population grew by about 68,000 every month and under former President Donald Trump it grew by about 42,000 a month.
Biden, on the other hand, has grown the foreign-born population by a whopping 137,000 every month since taking office. More than half — about 2.5 million — of those arriving under Biden, the CIS researchers note, are illegal aliens with the remaining two million arriving as legal immigrants.
More than 6-in-10 foreign-born residents who have arrived since Biden became president are from Latin America while others are primarily from Sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean, and the Middle East.
Though much attention is given to illegal immigration, the nation’s policy of annually importing more than a million legal immigrants accounts for 75 percent of the total foreign-born population today.
Without reductions to legal immigration levels, the foreign-born population is expected to hit 70 million by 2060.
American voters continuously tell pollsters they want cuts to overall immigration, mostly legal immigration. The latest survey from Rasmussen Reports showed 56 percent of likely voters want legal immigration levels cut to at least 750,000 admissions a year — including a plurality who said they want to see fewer than 500,000 admissions a year.
Likewise, 62 percent of likely voters said they oppose current immigration law which allows for so-called “chain migration,” the process where newly naturalized citizens can sponsor an unlimited number of foreign relatives for green cards.
Most relevant to the CIS analysis, nearly 7-in-10 likely voters said they want immigration-driven population growth either slowed or halted altogether so that the U.S. population can stabilize at a comfortable rate.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here
Goodbye, savings account
The economy is great, or so we hear. Well, car loan delinquencies are growing, food prices are higher, and now Americans are dipping into their savings accounts. This is the story:
Inflation is still taking a hefty toll on households, recent reports show.
Prices continued their upward momentum in January, rising 0.5% for the month and 6.4% over the past 12 months, according to the latest consumer price index data released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
To make ends meet, 27% of Americans said they’ve had to take money out of savings and more than half, or 54%, said they used that money to pay for everyday expenses, such as groceries and rent, the recent Country Financial Security Index found.
Roughly 64% of Americans are now living paycheck to paycheck, according to a LendingClub report -- up from 61% a year earlier and in line with the historic high first hit in March 2020.
“Inflation has shredded household budgets over the past two years, and not just when it comes to one-off discretionary expenses or special occasions, but for keeping up with day-to-day bills,” said Greg McBride, chief financial analyst at Bankrate.com.
Keeping up with day-to-day bills? I guess that's harder to do these days. Call it whatever you want to call it, but it is a problem for mom and dad making ends meet.
Maybe this is why the Gallup poll has President Biden's approval at 37%. It gets worse when you look inside the numbers: 32% economy, the independents 27%, and so on.
Wonder what his numbers would look like if the media would actually challenge his rosy statements about the U.S. economy? Of course, it's hard to challenge a president who does not do press conferences or to expect questions from a media still invested in Trump Derangement Syndrome.
How good is the economy? Just ask neighbor who just dipped into his IRA to pay the rent.
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Veteran Blasts NYC Officials for Kicking Him Out of Senior Home to Make Room for Migrants: ‘It Isn’t Fair’
Frank Tammaro, a 95-year-old veteran of the Korean War and lifelong New Yorker, is blasting the New York City officials involved in kicking him and other seniors out of an assisted living home to make room for border crossers and illegal aliens.
In September, Tammaro appeared alongside Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) at a press conference where he revealed that he and more than 50 other senior citizens, including seven other war veterans, were being kicked out of Island Shores Senior Residence in Staten Island.
“I felt horrible. It’s no joke getting thrown out of a house,” Tammaro told Fox News Digital in a recent interview with Megan Myers and Teny Sahakian.
For Tammaro, it is yet again a situation where cities, states, and the federal government refuse to prioritize veterans who fought overseas.
“I was not in combat, but these boys that went over and went into combat and now they’re all settled in there with their lives and everything else and they’re all disrupted,” Tammaro said. “It isn’t fair.”
Behind closed doors, Tammaro soon learned that the non-governmental organization (NGO) Homes for the Homeless, which owns Island Shores, had cut a deal with New York City officials to transform the assisted living home into a migrant camp.
“It was scary, very scary. Especially when I don’t get around like I used to,” Tammaro said of being kicked out of his home where he intended to stay. “I didn’t know where I was going.”
Owners of hotels, facilities, and other locations across the city have cut similar deals with Mayor Eric Adams (D) because they are paid lucratively with local taxpayer money to take in hundreds, sometimes thousands, of border crossers and illegal aliens.
Tammaro soon moved into a different assisted living home but decided not to return after taking a fall that landed him in the hospital. Now, he has moved into his daughter’s home in Midland Beach, Staten Island.
“I do get upset when I see them handing out all this money and all these things, and I’m paying taxes and getting kicked out. I’ve never got anything from the city or the state,” Tammaro said of the border crossers and illegal aliens getting a seemingly free ride on the taxpayer’s dime.
Tammaro’s daughter, Barbara Annunziata, said she has been unable to get her father a healthcare aide because their insurance keeps rejecting him. Meanwhile, she sees border crossers and illegal aliens living for free, at the taxpayer’s expense.
“I don’t understand it at all. It’s not fair to anybody. These migrants … they’re getting everything and I can’t get nothing for him. It angers me,” Annunziata told Fox News Digital.
At the end of the day, Annunziata said it is as simple as Americans — in Tammaro’s case, a native New Yorker — being put last while the world’s migrants are given priority.
“They’re worried about the migrants more than they’re worried about the U.S. citizens,” Annunziata said.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
NYC: Illegal Immigrant ‘Sanctuary’ Sees Homeless Population Surge as Busloads from Texas Continue to Arrive
New York City’s homeless population is surging thanks, in part, to the continued arrival of busloads of illegal immigrants from Texas being sent to the self-proclaimed “sanctuary.”
In the city’s Fiscal Year (FY) ending June 30, the homeless population increased 73%, rising from 46,675 in FY2022 to 80,724 in FY2023, according to statistics published last month in a financial report by the city’s comptroller.
“More than 22,000 asylum seekers applied for shelter through DHS as of April 2023,” the comptroller said in an August review of the city’s homeless situation, apparently counting all migrants as “asylum seekers.”
Last week, migrants set up camp in front of the mayor’s residence, to protest the time limit on how long they can live in one of the city’s shelters, regional network Spectrum News NY 1 reports:
“On Thursday, dozens of protestors set up tents and sleeping bags outside of Gracie Mansion, blasting the city’s recent restrictions on the length of time migrants can stay in shelters before they have to reapply for housing.”
The city currently has a 30-day shelter limit for adults and a 60-day limit for families.
In a September press release warning of the financial burden of actually having to be a sanctuary, Democrat New York City Mayor estimated that approximately 10,000 “asylum” seekers are “still arriving each month.”
The comptroller’s review says the city’s shelter system has been “overwhelmed” by the surge in immigration that began in 2022 when Texas – which was already being overwhelmed by illegal immigration – began busing immigrants to the “sanctuary” New York City had promised them:
“In October 2022, at the peak of the surge in migrants seeking asylum, DHS reported the highest-ever number of homeless people living within the shelter system.
“DHS stated that starting in April 2022, the State of Texas began sending buses of migrant asylum seekers to New York City. Buses arrived unannounced and unscheduled, and the people on them—most of whom had crossed into the United States via the southern border—were in need of shelter and care.
“By April 4, 2023, 22,002 asylum seeker households had applied for shelter through DHS. In response, the City opened 135 emergency sites between June 2022 and May 2023 for asylum seekers.
“The City shelter system was overwhelmed by this surge. The shelter population reached its highest-ever daily population by October 5, 2022, with over 61,000 people recorded. Although other City agencies have since stepped in to help shoulder part of this burden, the number of people in DHS shelters continued to grow. On March 1, 2023, the daily population in DHS shelters reached 70,848 people.”
On Friday, Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott reported that his state has bused more than 22,800 migrants to New York City since August of 2022, as part of the multi-agency border security measure, Operation Lone Star.
To deal with the staggering cost of the immigrant surge, Mayor Adams has announced the city is reducing its number of police and making across-the-board budget cuts:
“[M]ake no mistake: Migrant costs are going up, tax revenue growth is slowing and COVID stimulus funding is drying up.”
New York City’s migrant crisis will cost nearly $11billion over two fiscal years and its FY2025 budget gap is expected to “surpass unprecedented $7 billion,” the mayor’s press release estimates.
Foreign-Born Population Hits 49.5 Million Under Biden – Largest Ever in American History
The nation’s foreign-born population has hit an unprecedented 49.5 million, the largest ever recorded in American history, under President Joe Biden.
Analysis by Steven Camarota and Karen Zeigler at the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) revealed that in October the foreign-born population reached almost 50 million, increasing by 4.5 million foreign-born residents since Biden took office in January 2021.
Put another way, the Biden administration has added more immigrants to the nation’s population than the annual number of U.S. births in fewer than three years. Similarly, the growth of the foreign-born population under Biden exceeds the resident populations of 25 states.
“At 15 percent, the foreign-born share of the U.S. population is also the highest ever recorded in American history,” Camarota and Zeigler wrote:
As the debate rages over the ongoing border crisis, this finding is important because administrative numbers such as border encounters or even legal immigrant arrivals do not measure the actual size of the immigrant population, which is what ultimately determines immigration’s impact on the country. [Emphasis added]
Chart via Center for Immigration Studies
In numbers even excessive for a liberal White House, Biden has doubled the monthly inflow of immigration. Under former President Barack Obama, for example, the foreign-born population grew by about 68,000 every month and under former President Donald Trump it grew by about 42,000 a month.
Biden, on the other hand, has grown the foreign-born population by a whopping 137,000 every month since taking office. More than half — about 2.5 million — of those arriving under Biden, the CIS researchers note, are illegal aliens with the remaining two million arriving as legal immigrants.
More than 6-in-10 foreign-born residents who have arrived since Biden became president are from Latin America while others are primarily from Sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean, and the Middle East.
Though much attention is given to illegal immigration, the nation’s policy of annually importing more than a million legal immigrants accounts for 75 percent of the total foreign-born population today.
Without reductions to legal immigration levels, the foreign-born population is expected to hit 70 million by 2060.
American voters continuously tell pollsters they want cuts to overall immigration, mostly legal immigration. The latest survey from Rasmussen Reports showed 56 percent of likely voters want legal immigration levels cut to at least 750,000 admissions a year — including a plurality who said they want to see fewer than 500,000 admissions a year.
Likewise, 62 percent of likely voters said they oppose current immigration law which allows for so-called “chain migration,” the process where newly naturalized citizens can sponsor an unlimited number of foreign relatives for green cards.
Most relevant to the CIS analysis, nearly 7-in-10 likely voters said they want immigration-driven population growth either slowed or halted altogether so that the U.S. population can stabilize at a comfortable rate.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
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